ABS usually refers to:

  • Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, a common plastics polymer
  • Anti-lock braking system, in vehicles

Abs usually refers to:

  • Rectus abdominis muscle ("abdominal muscle" or "abs") of humans and some mammals
  • Abdominal muscles (colloquial)

ABS or Abs may also refer to:

Arts and media

Broadcasting

  • ABS (TV station), Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Adelaide, Australia
  • ABS network (Arab Broadcasting Services)
  • Akita Broadcasting System, Japan
  • Amalgamated Broadcasting System, former US radio network
  • ABS-CBN Corporation, a Philippine media and entertainment conglomerate
  • Alto Broadcasting System, a Philippines company later ABS-CBN
  • ABS-CBN, a Philippine television network
  • Antigua Broadcasting Service, state broadcaster of Antigua and Barbuda

Music

  • A.B.'s, a Japanese 1980s instrumental band
  • American Bach Soloists, chamber music ensemble
  • Abz Love, British singer

Other media

  • Abs Denham, a fictional character in Casualty

Aviation

  • Aerial base station, flying antenna system
  • IATA airport code for Abu Simbel Airport in Aswan Governorate, Egypt

Organizations

  • ABS FC, a football club from Ilorin, Nigeria
  • American Bible Society
  • American Bladesmith Society
  • American Boy Scouts, an early Scouting organization
  • American Bureau of Shipping, a shipping classification society
  • Association of Broadcasting Staff, a former British broadcasting trade union
  • Aston Business School, Birmingham, England, UK
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics

Companies

  • ABS Free Dish, a Bermuda-based television service
  • ABS (satellite operator), Amit Somani, Dubai, formerly Asia Broadcast Satellite
  • ABS Capital Partners, Baltimore, Maryland, US
  • Alternative Bank Schweiz, Solothurn, Switzerland
  • American Bladesmith Society
  • ABS Global, formerly American Breeders Service
  • ABS Building Society, Australia
  • Acciaierie Bertoli Safau, an Italian steel mill

Places

  • Archbold Biological Station, a research institute in Florida, US
  • Abs district, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen
  • Abs (Yemen), a town

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Amniotic band syndrome, a congenital disorder
  • Cis-abienol synthase, an enzyme
  • Ankaferd BloodStopper, an antihemorrhagic
  • Auto-brewery syndrome, ethanol produced in the digestive system
  • Aqueous biphasic system, for solvent extraction

Other uses in science and technology

  • , in linguistics, glossing abbreviation for absolutive case
  • Absolute value, function in mathematics and computing
  • Adaptive bitrate streaming
  • Anton-Babinski syndrome, in neurology; rare symptom of brain damage
  • Arch Build System, in Arch Linux
  • Automated Ball-Strike System, in baseball
  • Automatic block signaling, a railroad communications system that controls the movement of trains

Other uses

  • Abs (surname), list of people with the name
  • Ambonese Malay (ISO 639-3 code), a Malay creole of Indonesia
  • Asset-backed security, in finance
  • Advanced British Standard, a proposed British educational qualification
  • Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity

See also

  • AB (disambiguation), including AB, Ab, ab; for the singular of ABs, Abs, abs